Sentence examples for squalor from inspiring English sources

We all want our icons in the desert, but let's face it, your construction workers will probably do a better job if they're not living in squalor, 10 men to a room, trapped in labour camps with their passports confiscated, working for a year just to pay back their recruitment fees.

Some were horrified at the idea of respectable mothers leaving their families for squalor and for politics.

Whitechapel as he saw it was a thriving, prosperous place, with its wide, busy, well-lit central artery, and all the wretchedness and squalor were buried in contiguous courts.

Drink had a good deal to do with whatever misery and squalor existed, but as far as he could make out men were now drinking less in London than formerly, while women were drinking more.

Trapped in such squalor and surrounded by hostility, it is from such places as Aung Ming Lar that tens of thousands of Rohingya have fled, handing their fate to paid traffickers to take them by sea to Thailand and Malaysia.

While all this squalor is as unmistakable as a septic wound waved under our noses, there are darker, deeper currents moving within Maupassant's work.

Seven years in the squalor of that government settlement saw an estimated third of the Guugu Yimithirr perish, McIvor's closest relatives among them.

Allow your hands to wander inside your uptight bourgeois pants and feel the excitement of my squalor.

Befriend the electrician that has visited your house five times this week, embrace a loyalty card to your local Indian restaurant, and one day you may look back on your days of living in squalor with pride.

William Beveridge, whose 1942 report laid its foundations, pledged a war on the "giant evils" of squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease.

Romantic notions of sociable, high-density living notions pushed, for the most part, by people who themselves occupy rather spacious residences ignore the squalor and lack of privacy to be found in Kinshasa, Mumbai or the other crowded cities of the poor world.